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EP 98402462 A 19981006

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A processing engine, comprising an execution unit for executing machine-readable instructions dispatched thereto, and an instruction buffer for temporarily storing a plurality of machine-readable instructions transferred thereto prior to dispatch to the execution unit. The execution unit is responsive to a first machine-readable instruction to initiate iterative execution of a block of machine-readable instructions, including an initial and a final instruction for said block, all locatable in said instruction buffer. During iterative execution, instruction fetch into the instruction buffer is inhibited. <IMAGE>